English > live on: 1 sense > verb 1, stative| Meaning | Continue to live through hardship or adversity. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
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| Model | The business is going to live on |
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| Synonyms | survive, last, live, go, endure, hold up, hold out |
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| Entails | be, live | Have life, be alive |
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| Narrower | live out | Live out one's life |
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| perennate | survive from season to season, of plants |
| stand up, hold up, hold water | resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc. |
| Similar to | be, live | Have life, be alive |
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| exist, survive, live, subsist | support oneself |
| Spanish | durar, perdurar, persistir, sobrevivir, vivir |
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| Catalan | durar, perdurar, persistir, sobreviure, viure |
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